Bad Girl Simone Lahbib's daughter is smash hit in new TV milkshake advert proving acting runs in the family

SIMONE has starred in a small-screen hit series like Bad Girls and Wire in the Blood, has a Hollywood actor as a husband and now their daughter, Skye Degruttola, is becoming a smash hit in her own right aged only 8-years-old.

SHE is charming viewers nationwide as the cute schoolgirl in a TV ad for Petits Filous milkshake.

But as the daughter of Bad Girls and Wire In The Blood star Simone Lahbib, acting is in the genes for Skye Degruttola.

Her mum, who’s originally from Stirling, says she couldn’t be prouder to chaperone her daughter as her career goes from strength to strength at the age of just eight.

Simone, 49, who’s married to actor Raffaello Degruttola, said: “Skye had a flurry of auditions, including for the Petits Filous advert. We actually found out afterwards that it was a friend of ours who wrote the script.

“I went over to Brussels, where it was filmed, as her chaperone and was standing by a monitor watching her filming. She’s smart and takes direction well – she’s just very good at it.

“We’re just being a little bit cautious but it seems wrong to say no to everything if it’s something she’s enjoying.”

Skye hit it off so well with her co-star, fellow child actor Austin Taylor, that Simone and his dad are determined to encourage the friendship.

She said: “They just clicked and we had a day where we went round Brussels together.

“The giggle at the end of the advert is real and what they were like together. He was such a gentleman and it was the sweetest thing to see. We’re hoping that they will stay friends. His dad and I are going to try to make that happen.”

Skye is also featuring in a six-part series for ITV called Grantchester, in which Simone’s former Wire In The Blood co-star Robson Green plays her dad.

The six-part series, set in 1950s Cambridgeshire, is due to air later this year.

Simone, who also had a role in Oscar-nominated film Philomena, said: “I walked on set with her and hadn’t seen Robson for a while. I could see him saying, ‘Hi, Skye,’ and shaking her hand.

“Then he looked up and saw me and I could see him clicking that this was the baby who was in the trailer because Skye was only three months old when I started Wire In The Blood.

“So here was the baby about to play his daughter – it was quite an incredible thing.”

Skye, who is represented by the Sylvia Young agency, has also appeared in Miracle Landing On The Hudson on the National Geographic channel.

Simone said: “I’m still doing bits and pieces but I’m just so proud of her and I enjoy going with her on these little adventures.